DATOS DEL MATRIMONIO ESPIA

 

Mr. Bierman:
  Your article "FIU professor, wife, charged with violating national
security," in today's Miami Herald online edition omits mention that arrested
Castro agent Carlos M. Alvarez Sanchez, appeared in July 1974 as
a "colaborator" in the pro-Castro magazine "Areito," along with his then wife
Arminda Alvarez.
  Alvarez received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Florida at
Gainsville in 1974, with the dissertation entitled "Effects of Contingent and
Non-Contingent Reinforcement on Children's Academic Performance."
  Carlos Alvarez was also one of the 140 participants in the so-
called "dialogue" with Fidel Castro on December 8, 1978.
  His name appears on the first line of the El Nuevo Herald list at
  http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/dialogue/dialogueros-1978.pdf
  and also on another list of "dialogue" participants at
  http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/dialogue/Dialogueros-lista.pdf
  The name and signature of Carlos Alvarez appears on the second page of
the "dialogue" document at
  http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/dialogue/Dialogo-firmantes.pdf
  Since the 1970s, Alvarez was also a member of the Instituto de Estudios
Cubanos (IEC) directed by now retired Miami-Dade College Professor Maria
Cristina Herrera. In 1983, Alvarez was Treasurer and Executive Committee
member of the IEC. In 1991, he was still a member of the IEC.
  http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/dialogue/IEC.pdf
  There are still other FIU professors suspected of being Cuban intelligence
agents, especially Maria Felicia "Marifeli" Perez-Stable Diaz, a political
science professor. She was also a founder of Areito magazine, the Antonio
Maceo Brigade, and participant in the so-called "dialogue" with Castro.
  In July 1983, Jesus Perez Mendez, a defecting captain of Cuba's Directorate
General of Intelligence (DGI), informed U.S. intelligence that Perez-Stable
was "controlled" by DGI officers Isidro Gómez y Jesús Arboleya Cervera. They
placed her in charge of the Circulo de Cultura Cubana (CCC), after she
substituted former DGI operative Lourdes Casal, a Rutgers sociology professor
who died in 1981. Defector Perez Mendez stated that the DGI prepared annual
plans for Perez-Stable and that she received $100 for each tourist that
traveled to Cuba with the CCC. The DGI asked Perez-Stable to infiltrate the
IEC, whose position afterward became more favorable toward the Cuban regime.
  This is just the tip of the iceberg of academic espionage at FIU. Some day,
when there is a regime change in Cuba and the DGI archives are opened to the
public, the truth will emerge.
  Sincerely,
  Dr. Antonio de la Cova
  Latino Studies
  Indiana University, Bloomington